Posts tagged “Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Deja sue as Apple starts new litigation against Samsung

Posted on 14 February 2012

Here’s a little litigation déjà vu. It seems Apple will be keeping the lawyers on for a little bit longer, adding a new round of patent litigation against Samsung to the unsurprising appeal of last year’s case. In the United States Apple has filed new patent infringement claims, this time the focus is on the the Galaxy Nexus, the newest of the Nexus series and the Ice Cream Sandwich flagship phone. Filed in the District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday last week, Apple is seeking “a preliminary injunction regarding Samsung’s new Galaxy Nexus, which infringes multiple key Apple patents, is essential to prevent immediate and irreparable harm to Apple”. The patents in question are: United States Patent No 5,946,647 - dubbed the ‘data tapping’ patent,…

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BIT ON THE SIDE Chrome for Android released

Posted on 8 February 2012

We all knew it was only a matter of time till Google released Chrome for Android. And that time is now.

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IN/OUTPUTS for 9 to 15 January

Posted on 9 January 2012

In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that’s passed through my feeds this week Samsung’s Best New TVs Beat Apple to the Voice (And Face!) Recognition Game (Updated) It was only a matter of time before UI features like gesture control, facial recognition and voice commands which are in other technologies came to televisions. And that time is now. Samsung’s new TVs featured at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show include what they’re calling ‘smart interaction’ which include all of these features we’re getting used to in our mobile phones (Android’s Face Unlock, Apple’s Siri) and gaming consoles (XBox’s Kinect. UPDATE 11 Jan 2012 @ 8.12 AM While GIZMODO is also reporting that the outcome is less that amazing, it won’t be long till all…

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